Owner's Manual

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After the deployment of ESXi finishes, the server shows a purple screen as shown below with the
error Two filesystems with the same UUID have been detected. Make sure you do not have two
ESXi installations.
This is a known issue from VMWare and the resolution is in the VMWare knowledge base article found
here:
This is a known issue from VMware and the resolution is in the VMware knowledge base article found
here:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId
=2000476
or here:
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId
=1035107
Incorrect warning is displayed on the VCenter Summary tab when the hypervisor was deployed and
root password set to non-default as shown in the screen below.
This is a known issue from VMWare and the resolution is to remove the host from the VMWare tree
and re-add it back with the correct root password.